The Working Class
doesn't need any more “This” ICC

The
intervention of the ICC in Spain during the mobilization around the
struggle of the Asturian miners, has been conspicuous by its absence
in a first time – with the notable exception of the nucleus
in... Turkey. Then, under the pressure of the events and the echoes
of the “Black March” (“Marcha negra”) on
Madrid for one part and the astonishment, false or real, of
sympathizers – see the readers' mails on their web site –,
the ICC in Spain has deigned to produce a leaflet
… only July 16th.

But
what a leaflet ! What a shame ! Firstly this text makes all
it can to reduce and enclose the workers mobilization inside the
ground of the... “indignous” and of democracy : “We,
the IMMENSE MAJORITY, exploited and oppressed, but also indignant, we
workers of the public and private sectors, the unemployed, students,
pensioners, immigrants...we are posing a lot of questions about
everything that’s going on. We need to pose these questions
collectively, in the streets, on the squares, in the workplaces, so
that we can come up with answers together and make a massive,
powerful and sustained response”

What
a political vanguard organization the one which calls to pose
questions while the struggle is engaged ! This recalls us the
“interrogation” of the German section of the ICC in a
leaflet which questioned the weapon of the strike... at the very
moment the workers of the OPEL car factory of Bochum had launched
into a wildcat strike The
liquidationist ICC and the OPEL workers struggle,
Bulletin #29 of the Internal Fraction of the ICC, December 2004).

At
no moment, the ICC calls the whole working class to join the miners
and to transform the “Black March” organized by the
unions into a genuine workers demonstration opening towards the
spreading of the fight to all and towards its unification. At no
moment, the ICC calls for the political fight against the unions'
manoeuvres, but all the contrary it calls for reflection (sic !),
to “Group
together
in the workplaces, in the neighbourhoods, in the collectives, on the
internet, to reflect on everything that’s going on, to organise
meetings and debates which will prepare the struggles to come”
at
the very time the movement engaged by the miners becomes, above all
when the workers of Madrid (and elsewhere) are joining it, an
important and even decisive battle for this mobilization of the
class.

Worst
even, the leaflet ends up calling for everyone to “change
himself” as indispensable condition for the development of the
struggle : “Every
social change is inseparable from an individual change.
Our struggle cannot be limited to a simple change in the political
and economic structures. It’s a change in the social system and
thus in our own lives, in our way of seeing things, in our
aspirations. This
is the only way[here,
it is ourselves who underline] we
can develop the strength to resist the innumerable traps we will meet
along the way, the physical and moral blows that will be aimed at us.
A change of mentality in the direction of solidarity, collective
consciousness, which will cement our unity today, but will also be
the pillar of a future society free from the ferocious competition
and commercialism of capitalist society”

This
talking is purely and simply the one of the “movement of the
indignous” and more generally the one of bourgeois ideology :
“to change the world, one must change himself”. But above
all, this talking is deeply anti-marxist by making the class
consciousness an addition of the thoughts, of personal reflections
and at best of individual consciousness. The opportunist drift of the
ICC has led this one to fully place itself on the bourgeois ideology
ground. If it has not yet politically cross the class frontier, it
isn't any more on the ground of marxism and of the Communist Left.
Thus it won't resist to convulsive movements of History because its
terrible theoretical weakening and its adhesion to the crudest themes
of bourgeois ideology.